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Thailand is the only Asian country never to have been colonised. This implies that the country’s monarchs and their top administrators looked for and received significant international influence, e...

Am 20. September 2019 hatte Gerd Albers, der am 31. Januar 2015 im Alter von 95 Jahren in Munchen gestorben ist, seinen 100. Geburtstag feiern konnen. Wenn es auch zu fruh fur eine wissenschaftlich...

Die beiden hier besprochenen Dissertationen sind 2018 erschienen – die erste im Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart, und die zweite im Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld. Beide behandeln besondere Themen der...

«Urbanitat durch Dichte» war seit etwa 1965 der Slogan fur progressiven Stadtebau in Deutschland und ahnlich auch in anderen Landern Europas. Es war eine stark vereinfachende Kombination aus dem, w...

This book is a large collection of 25 papers on a very broad range of aspects concerning a central theme, which – according to the editors – was first given the label “amenity migration” about 30–4...

While the conservation efforts and constraints in the medieval town of Quedlinburg are typical of the conditions in the smaller historic towns in the former German Democratic Republic, they also resemble those of small heritage towns in other countries. Shifts and changes are assessed for a time frame of about 25 years, before and after the pivotal event of German reunification of 1990. Located in a previously prosperous but now depressed region with more than 20% unemployment, Quedlinburg has suffered from the breakdown of the former agricultural and other industries in the region after 1990 and subsequent out‐migration. Some valuable historic buildings were lost before 1990, owing to neglect and lack of funding. Since then, improved funding, combined with public–private partnership, has helped the town to make very considerable conservation progress. The town’s World Heritage status since 1994 has been utilised as a significant supporting factor in tourism promotion, which has become an important part o...

This study uses relatively simple techniques to study social impacts of the Eastern Seaboard Development Programme (ESDP) of Thailand. Initially, rapid rural appraisal (RRA) is used to become familiar with the problems and issues in the area. The impact network technique is used to present the direct and indirect impacts as perceived in the RRA. Spatial analysis of social indicators is then applied to evaluate the social impacts at district level and by travel time zone. Two approaches are used in the spatial analysis—comparison of impacts between two time periods and application of factor analysis. This type of appraisal would be equally applicable in other developing countries.

«Entwicklungslander»?Band 5 in der Reihe «Symposium Geographie» fugt den bereits erschienenen Banden ein weiteres wich- tiges Forum der Diskussion von geographischen und gesellschaftswissenschaftli...

This study reports on the subjective evaluations of treatment by 162 patients who had been treated and discharged with staff approval at Hazelden Rehabilitation Center. At 2 years following treatment, these patients were asked to comment on what they considered the most important aspects of their treatment experience. Four principal groupings of comments emerged as being most important: (1) Formal Hazelden activities, i.e., lectures, counseling; (2) Inner-directed learning, i.e., understanding, insight; (3) Informal Hazelden activities, i.e., personal friendships, fellowship; and (4) General learning, i.e., effect of alcohol on mind and body. The implications of these findings are discussed in terms of the utility of evaluating treatment effectiveness through the subjective judgments of the treated patients.